Blake Mycoskie Quotes
If you just go out and try to make money by starting a business, you're going to come up with something that's just like what everyone else has done. But if you look at the world and see opportunities that can be taken more seriously, then you come up with a great idea.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.
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Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
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There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?
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They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair.
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A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home.
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While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.
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I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.
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L.A. has always had a ton of creative business people, but tech has always been trumped by Hollywood. Now Hollywood is realizing it needs to be smarter in tech. Hollywood is finally crossing over, and it's really going to charge L.A. to be the next tech center.
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As I've progressed in my career, I've come to appreciate - and really value - the other attributes that define a company's success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.
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Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
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There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money.
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Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.
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Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.
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He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.
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I'm always working on new stuff.
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I don't think all comedy should be mindless. Have something that's thoughtful. Maybe some things are tongue-in-cheek; maybe some things are very direct. I like that people have to think about things. That excites me. Because if you say certain things, it starts a dialogue. Even if you disagree, it's still a dialogue.
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If you just go out and try to make money by starting a business, you're going to come up with something that's just like what everyone else has done. But if you look at the world and see opportunities that can be taken more seriously, then you come up with a great idea.
